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Quotes by Actress

"I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor."

"The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you."

"I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships."

"When fans come up to me and Vanessa, they're really sweet and ask for autographs - but once they see the guys, the girls tend to scream."

"I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express."
Film,

"Ron Howard is as good a person as you could want to work with on film. He never lost his cool. He's the most easygoing, lovely man, but he's got this enormous intelligence and a wonderful humanity."

"I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever."
Want,

"Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home."

"Cause-and-effect assumes history marches forward, but history is not an army. It is a crab scuttling sideways, a drip of soft water wearing away stone, an earthquake breaking centuries of tension. Sometimes one person inspires a movement, or her words do decades later, sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do; sometimes those millions are stirred by the same outrage or the same ideal, and change comes upon us like a change of weather. All that these transformations have in common is that they begin in the imagination, in hope."

"I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough."

"I'm a girl who loves to share information, especially empowering, life-changing, information."

"As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line."

"Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."

"I can't say this enough, I'm totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don't think it's a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I'm happy with it."
Body,

"I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different."

"I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas."


"Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they're happy."

"When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful."

"I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor."

"Usually, about 85 percent of what the tabloids report is a lie. Over the last year, I can truly say it has been 99 percent."
Lie,


"When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire."

"I knew from the time I could walk that I wanted to be an actor."

"If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America."

"I don't think there's anything more important than making peace before it's too late. And it almost always falls to the child to try to move toward the parent."
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